Aye! At long last, EF has welded Miki's new mesh and appears to have fixed her UVs as well. She bends better and looks way better, imo. Still remains close to the original which is good. A new point order means old stuff won't fit perfectly but support for this is now easier... And full body morphs will be possible. Not just chest size. Attached subD at 3.... yahh haaaah!

I am glad , that Miki2 still looks like Miki.The inner Mouth sektion has reversed normals like the first Sydney edition had.At least the inner mouth is attached to the lip .No gap there .I am happy with Miki.Does Morph exchanges from Sydney to Miki2 work?

EDIT!!! Sorry My bad. I opened the wrong OBJ file... Not sure if she is welded or not. Have to find something to open a .OBZ file. Crap! Have to go to work..

@richardson.. If you haven't found out how to uncompres you obz, look under the Python window, utility button, uncompress files.

Just open the OBZ with Winzip...

Thanks guys! Hate dropping incorrect info But,,,, She IS welded less the neck seam. This is still doable for full body morphs. Why not weld all of her? I dunno

Quote - Thanks guys! Hate dropping incorrect info But,,,, She IS welded less the neck seam. This is still doable for full body morphs. Why not weld all of her? I dunno

 

A guess: The FACEROOM perhaps?

You might be right about that, dlfurman. Isn't the FaceRoom module made by the same company that make FaceGen? And if I remember what I've read about FaceGen it exports a head wich would have to be welded to a body.

Attached Link: V4 FaceGen Compatible

>>Isn't the FaceRoom module made by the same company that make FaceGen? And if I remember what I've read about FaceGen it exports a head wich would have to be welded to a body.

While that is true if you use the default geometry provided with FaceGen (which is not the same geometry as found in any of the Poser figures), it isn't true if you use the FaceGen Customizer to make a figure's head and heck compatible with FaceGen Modeler.

The FaceGen Customizer costs as much as the Modeler, and the process to convert heads is long and tedious (materials and UVs have to be considered, and care has to be taken to not "break" the morphs by reordering the vertices of the head and neck meshes.) But you CAN create heads that will not only work with the original geometry, but which will be able to be applied to the original figure as a morph target.

Not an easy process, to be sure, but it can be done. My Halle Berry image is V4's head, neck, and eyes painstakingly converted to FaceGen compatible geometry, and added to V4 as a morph target. All of V4's existing morphs also work. The only issue remaining is that FaceGen won't generate head textures that are larger than 512x512. Hoping that an update will take care of that last issue!

So ... to make a long story short, Miki's head not being welded to the neck might not necessarily be related to the face room at all, unless EF's customization of the FaceGen code requires it.